Stone Farmhouse

Stone Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins dating back to the 16th century, featuring alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed from rendered colourwashed stone, with some cob, and has a scantle slate roof that is gabled at both ends. The building includes a rendered lateral stack on the front and a brick chimney at the right gable end, along with additional brick chimneys at the rear.

The original layout may have been a rear courtyard house, with the rear range currently used as a barn and the front comprising a three-room and through passage design. The front range is now arranged as a two-room and through passage plan, with a rear right wing that connects to the barn above a cart entrance. A separate dwelling that existed at the higher end was demolished in the 20th century and may have served as the inner room. The front range has been modified to a two-span structure, and it is likely that a rear outshut has been converted into a two-storey block. The roof of the front range has been raised at the higher end of the through passage.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and features an asymmetrical four-window front with irregular fenestration. A 16th-century moulded arched stopped granite doorway is present, adorned with blind trefoils carved in the spandrels beneath a square-headed hoodmould that has one round and one square label stop. The doorway retains old gudgeon hooks. The massive front lateral stack has set-offs, and there is a blocked opening on the ground floor to the left. To the left of the stack is a three-light 19th-century casement window with six panes per light, and a similar two-light casement is to the right of the stack, along with an eight-pane sash window to the right of the doorway. The first floor has four windows, all three-light 19th-century casements with six panes per light.

Inside, one mid-16th-century truss survives in the rear right wing, featuring chamfered principals with curved feet, a diagonally set ridge, and one tier of threaded purlins, with one purlin still intact. The truss has nearly failed, and a concrete block wall has been constructed to support the roof. The roof timbers in other areas are reported to be more recent, and the slates throughout are secured to the rafters with wooden pegs. The fireplace in the front lateral stack is partly blocked and may hide earlier features. In the late 15th century, the Stone heiress married Harris of Radford in Hooe.